Sentences with phrase «mob ties»

Hevesi, who during his time in office issued many instructive audits of waste and malfeasance in public authorities, government agencies, and local governments, and who in 2005 stopped the New York State Thruway Authority from awarding a 46 million dollar contract to a construction company with mob ties, was discovered in the course of his 2006 re-election campaign to be an abuser of state vehicles.

A contractor whose former company was suspected of mob ties won $ 37 million in taxpayer - funded NYC contracts last year — despite his history of blocking investigations into his prior company.

DEALS — Daily News's Greg Smith: «A contractor whose former company was suspected of mob ties won $ 37 million in taxpayer - funded city contracts last year — despite his history of blocking investigations into his prior company.

It's weird that Catholics can turn a deaf ear to child molestation and mob ties associated with Catholicism, but they condemn and criticize about morals and decency.

Alleged mob ties crowd Bernie Kerik's drawers, while X Governor Jim McGreevey of Jersey tells Oprah ALL.

«He's a riveting, entertaining «confidence man» — see The Sting, Music Man — who charms his way out of a list of particulars that would destroy anyone of lesser talents — mob ties before becoming an FBI informant against the mob, Tawana Brawley, IRS fines, multiple campaign violations, anti-Semitic comments, racial bullying,» Green writes.

Gotti obsessed and hopelessly in love, Thomas (Boardwalk Empire's Vincent Piazza) and Rose (Academy Award ® — winner Patricia Arquette) are looking to fit in to a neighborhood where mob ties equal social currency.

Fledgling indie distributor Broad Green Pictures, which has staffed up to around 60, has acquired U.S. distribution rights at the Cannes market for «The Infiltrator,» starring Bryan Cranston («Breaking Bad») as undercover U.S. Customs agent Robert Mazur, who used mob ties to make his way into some of the world's largest drug cartels during the 1980s.

A young mayor in a small town finds herself in over her head when she tries to manage her dysfunctional family, a dying father, a town on the edge of bankruptcy, and some seriously suspicious mob ties.

Jon Lovitz (I Could Never Be Your Woman, The Benchwarmers), who is just barely adequate in his role as the film's comic relief role of Jack's friend with mob ties, is a heavy liability when it comes to drawing out a dramatic moment, always looking like he's unsure of how to properly emote when not going for flamboyant laughs.

When Barone was under fire for his mob ties, Liston quipped, «I got to get me a manager that's not hot — like Estes Kefauver.»

Since Mr. Brindisi declared his candidacy, Ms. Tenney has referred to him as a «sewer dweller,» after earlier attacks that suggested that Mr. Brindisi's family had mob ties.

Two years ago, when Bernie Kerik's nomination to be chief of Homeland Security collapsed from a barrage of allegations about mistresses, misappropriations, mob ties, and missing nannies, Rudy Giuliani at first stood by his friend.

UPDATED, 4:00 p.m., July 22: State Senator Jeff Klein took in a five - figure contribution from a realty company that allegedly has mob ties.

In 1970s Los Angeles, a private investigator (Ryan Gosling) and a strong man (Russell Crowe) work together to find a young woman (Margaret Qualley) with suspected mob ties.

In the 1980s, customs agent Robert Mazur posed as a money launderer with mob ties to get inside the Colombian drug cartels that were then bringing 15 tons of cocaine into the United States every week.

Gotti's defense attorneys took the position that Gotti severed his mob ties long ago.

The complex is rising on land whose previous owners include two convicted felons, one with alleged mob ties.

He told an inmate with mob ties that he was hoping to make a killing on the Wynn land sale, according to court filings.